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  • fmbb25 minutes ago
    I have never heard of ”System 1” and ”System 2” thinking before.<p>Wikipedia implies it’s just some pop-sci (psychology even, so extra pop) book from a few years ago. A book heavily criticized for relying on shoddy science. Why are the terms used to describe anything by anyone trying to sound serious or scientific?
    • amelius13 minutes ago
      &gt; In 2002, Kahneman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, despite being a research psychologist, for his work in prospect theory. Kahneman stated he has never taken a single economics course – that everything that he knows of the subject he and Tversky learned from their collaborators Richard Thaler and Jack Knetsch.
    • cpgxiii12 minutes ago
      Because a truly massive portion of managers&#x2F;leaders in AI-adjacent work are heavily buzzword-driven. &quot;System 1&#x2F;system 2&quot;,&quot;agentic &lt;buzzword&gt;&quot;, etc; someone in the industry starts using it and then everyone else picks it up, regardless of how much (or little) they understand.
    • Betelbuddy10 minutes ago
      Its all Kahneman...whose book and work has been discredited, due to the bad statistical methods, and he himself acknowledged it.
  • dominotw1 hour ago
    &gt; One of Kahneman’s best known contributions to AIthought is the System 1 System 2 metaphor he brought tobear on human cognition in his book Thinking Fast andSlow.<p>I read this book published in 1974 called &#x27;inner game of tennis&#x27; that has the same metaphor. Its one of the book i read every once in a while even though i dont play tennis anymore.
    • Betelbuddy12 minutes ago
      Kahneman book and work has been discredited, due to the bad statistical methods, and he himself acknowledged it.
    • OJFord1 hour ago
      I&#x27;m struggling to get through TFaS, really don&#x27;t understand how it became such a &#x27;PopPsych&#x27; (if that&#x27;s a thing) classic.<p>It&#x27;s like a collection of the obvious, the wrong, and autobiography of someone you haven&#x27;t otherwise heard of.
      • vovavili42 minutes ago
        It&#x27;a probably obvious to you because of cultural osmosis.
      • mjburgess42 minutes ago
        Of that class of book, the game is to pretend to have read it. A little like quoting a play having read a book of quotes.
    • cameldrv1 hour ago
      +1 on the inner game of tennis. It had a big influence on how I think about my own mind.
  • max00771 hour ago
    isnt this how flash models are made?